Assets

Question 1

Describe Shell Canada’s Upstream business.

Answer 1

Shell Canada’s Upstream businesses explore for and extract natural gas, and market and trade natural gas and power. Over the last decade, we have expanded our onshore natural gas portfolio, using advances in proven technology to tap rich resources of previously inaccessible “tight” gas, including gas locked in shale formations.

Question 2

Name all of Shell Canada’s upstream assets

Answer 2

Caroline Gas Complex
Deep Basin
Groundbirch/Montney
In Situ
Jumping Pound Gas Complex
Sable Offshore Energy Project
Shelburne Basin Deep-water Exploration Project
Waterton Gas Complex

Question 3

Describe the Caroline Gas Complex.

Answer 3

Shell Canada is the major owner and operator of the Caroline Complex which includes the gas field, 14 wells, three compressor stations, a major gas processing plant and a sulphur forming and storage facility. Caroline is one of four Shell gas complexes in southern Alberta, contributing to a combined overall production average of 300 million cubic feet per day (mmcfe/d) of natural gas

Question 4

Where is the Caroline Gas Complex located?

Answer 4

About 170 km northwest of Calgary near Caroline, Alberta.

Question 5

Describe The Greater Deep Basin venture.

Answer 5

The Greater Deep Basin venture is becoming an increasingly significant part of Shell Canada’s oil and gas business. Comprised of two assets, Deep Basin and Fox Creek, the venture currently has over 400 producing wells.

Question 6

Where is Deep Basin Located?

Answer 6

West central Alberta

Question 7

Describe Groundbirch

Answer 7

Shell Groundbirch consists of multiple facilities including water and fluid handling, oil batteries and gas processing including two main complexes. With two active drilling rigs, 1000+ kilometres of pipeline and over 420 wells, Groundbirch’s daily production for 2015 is expected to be over 410 million cubic feet of raw gas per day (mmcfe/d). Groundbirch uses pad drilling technology, which allows multiple wells from one site or ‘pad’ with one road and multiple pipelines in one pipeline right-of-way to reduce environmental footprint.

Question 8

Where is Groundbirch located?

Answer 8

About 50 km south of Fort St. John, British Columbia

Question 9

What are/were Shell’s In-Situe projects?

Answer 9

Carmon Creek
Peace River Complex
Cliffdale Battery
Grosmont

Question 10

Describe the Jumping Pound Gas Complex.

Answer 10

Shell Canada is the major owner and operator of the Jumping Pound Complex, which produces natural gas (methane), ethane, propane, butane, condensate and sulphur. Jumping Pound is one of our four Shell gas complexes in southern Alberta, contributing to a combined overall production average of 300 million cubic feet per day (mmcfe/d) of natural gas.

Question 11

Where is the Jumping Pound Gas Complex located?

Answer 11

33km west of Calgary near Cochrane, Alberta

Question 12

Describe the Sable Offshore Energy Project.

Answer 12

Shell is one of the owners of the Sable Offshore Energy Project (SOEP). SOEP is the first offshore natural gas project in Atlantic Canada to deliver gas to the Maritimes and to the northeastern United States via the Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline.

Question 13

Describe the Shelburne Basin Deep-water Exploration Project.

Answer 13

The Shelburne Basin Exploration Project is a proposed deep-water drilling program involving six exploration licences (ELs) located approximately 250 kilometres offshore, south of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Question 14

Describe the Waterton Gas Complex

Answer 14

Shell Canada is the major owner and operator of the Waterton Complex, which produces natural gas (methane), ethane, propane, butane, condensate and sulphur. Waterton is one of four Shell gas complexes in southern Alberta, contributing to a combined overall production average of 300 million cubic feet per day (mmcfe/d) of natural gas.

Question 15

Where is the Waterton Gas Complex located?

Answer 15

About 30 kilometres southwest of Pincher Creek in southern Alberta

Question 16

Describe Shell Canada and LNG.

Answer 16

Shell has been a pioneer in LNG for more than 50 years. We provided the technology for the world’s first commercial LNG plant in Arzew, Algeria in 1964, and we shipped its first commercial cargo to the UK in the same year, starting today’s global trade.

Question 17

Describe the LNG Canada Project.

Answer 17

In Canada, Shell, KOGAS, Mitsubishi and PetroChina are working together to design, build and operate the proposed LNG Canada project, located near Kitimat, B.C. in the traditional territory of the Haisla First Nation. Final investment decision is expected in late 2016.

Question 18

Describe the Shell & BG merger.

Answer 18

On February 15, 2016, BG Group became a part of Royal Dutch Shell. The combined portfolio includes a proposed an LNG export facility on Ridley Island near Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

Question 19

Describe Shell Canada’s downstream business.

Answer 19

Our Downstream organisation is made up of a number of businesses. Collectively these turn crude oil into a range of refined products, which are moved and marketed around the world for domestic, industrial and transport use.

Question 20

What are Shell’s Downstream facilities?

Answer 20

Scotford Manufacturing Centre
Sarnia Manufacturing Centre
Calgary Lube & Grease Plant
Brockville Lubricants Plant

Question 21

Describe Shell’s Scotford Manufacturing Centre.

Answer 21

Located 40 km northeast of Edmonton, Alberta, Scotford consists of an upgrader, oil refinery and chemicals facility. It is one of North America’s most efficient, modern and integrated hydrocarbon processing sites, converting oil sands derived bitumen into finished products via upgrading, refining, and chemical products.

Question 22

Describe the Sarnia Manufacturing Centre.

Answer 22

Shell’s Sarnia Manufacturing Centre (SMC), also referred to as Shell’s Corunna Refinery, is located about 10 kilometres south of Sarnia, Ontario.

Question 23

Describe the Calgary Lube & Grease Plant.

Answer 23

Shell’s Calgary Lube & Grease Plant has been a part of Calgary’s Inglewood community since 1982. As Shell’s only grease manufacturing facility in Canada, we are committed to producing quality products in a manner consistent with Shell’s commitment to sustainable development.

Question 24

Describe the Brockville Lubricants Plant.

Answer 24

The Brockville Lubricants Plant is Shell’s only lubricant oil blending and packaging facility in Canada and is one of the newest of its kind in North America.